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What is Lost Chicago about?

30th Anniversary These dazzling, poignant pages recreate the magical built environment that thrilled generations of Chicago residents and visitors alike before falling victim to the wrecking ball of progress. Here are the grand residences and hotels, opulent theaters, legendary trains, and state-of-the-art office buildings and department storesincluding the worlds first skyscraper. Here too are the famous convention halls, parks, and racetracks of a great American city whose architectural treasures have been, and continue to be, recklessly squandered. Rare photographs and prints, many of them published here for the first time, document the transformative architectural achievements of such giants as Dankmar Adler, Louis Sullivan, John Wellburn Root, Daniel Burnham, William Holabird, and Frank Lloyd Wright. But this remarkable book is much more than a portfolio of now-vanished buildings; within its pages are evocative sketches of scores of Chicago personalities, from the world-famous (Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Dreiser, Clarence Darrow, Ben Hecht, Jane Addams, Cyrus McCormick, George Pullman, and Gustavus Swift, to name just a few) to the locally notorious.

Author

David Garrard Lowe

Publisher

Watson-Guptill Publications, Incorporated

Published

2000

Language

EN

ISBN

9780823028719

Subjects

Art, History, Travel

Rating

4.06 / 5 (32 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14